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# What is Kong?
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-Kong is a scalable, open source API Platform (also known as an API Gateway or API Middleware). Kong was originally built by [Kong Inc.](https://konghq.com) (formerly known as Mashape) to secure, manage and extend over 15,000 Microservices for its API Marketplace, which generates billions of requests per month.
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+Kong is a scalable, open source API Platform (also known as an API Gateway or API Middleware). Kong was originally built by [Kong Inc.](https://konghq.com) (formerly known as Mashape) to secure, manage, and extend over 15,000 Microservices for its API Marketplace, which generates billions of requests per month.
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Under active development, Kong is now used in production at hundreds of organizations from startups, to large enterprises and governments including: The New York Times, Expedia, Healthcare.gov, The Guardian, Condè Nast, The University of Auckland, Ferrari, Rakuten, Cisco, SkyScanner, Yahoo! Japan, Giphy and so on.
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# How to use this image with a Database
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-First, for fully-compatible with all plugins (e.g. acl, oauth2), Kong requires a running Cassandra cluster (3.x+) or PostgreSQL instance (9.6+) before it starts. You can either use the official Cassandra/PostgreSQL containers, or use your own.
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+You can either use the official Cassandra/PostgreSQL containers, or use your own.
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## 1. Link Kong to either a Cassandra or PostgreSQL container
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If everything went well, and if you created your container with the default ports, Kong should be listening on your host's `8000` ([Proxy](https://docs.konghq.com/latest/configuration/#proxy_port)), `8443` ([Proxy SSL](https://docs.konghq.com/latest/configuration/#proxy_listen_ssl)), `8001` ([Admin API](https://docs.konghq.com/latest/configuration/#admin_listen)) and `8444` ([Admin API SSL](https://docs.konghq.com/latest/configuration/#admin_listen_ssl)) ports.
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-You can now read the docs at [docs.konghq.com](https://docs.konghq.com/) to learn more about Kong.
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+You can read the docs at [docs.konghq.com](https://docs.konghq.com/) to learn more about Kong.
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## 3. Use Kong with a custom configuration (and a custom Cassandra/PostgreSQL cluster)
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## Reload Kong in a running container
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-If you change your custom configuration, you can reload Kong (without downtime) by issuing:
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+If you change your custom configuration, reload Kong (without downtime) by running:
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```shell
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$ docker exec -it kong kong reload
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# Kubernetes Ingress
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-Among the many deployment options [available](https://konghq.com/install), Kong also offers a [Kubernetes Ingress Controller](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller) ready to use in your K8S environment.
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+Among the many deployment options [available](https://konghq.com/install), Kong also offers a [Kubernetes Ingress Controller](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller) ready to use in your K8s environment.
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